However, along comes some more tripe which I would prefer not to give more exposure. But it concerns sniping at education from the outside. It is about defending one set of powerful interests without admitting it.

The GWPF works in favour of free market exploitation of fossil fuels. It doesn’t like awkward questions. It uses pseudo-science to attack science. Lacking in self-awareness, it puts up Lord Lawson as spokesperson to a fawning media. Climate change scepticism is not the mission, it is climate change denial.

In this report it attacks teachers, authors and institutions from a desk. It has not visited any schools to gather evidence for this report as that would require delving into complexity. It has merely scanned a few websites and cherry-picked the content without regard to the context.